Ever get gaming burnout? What about people who sell their collection?

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aliensstudios:
I'm one of those people who prefer the collecting aspect more so than the gaming aspect. I don't think I would sell it all but I have decreased the size of my collection by about 60 titles this year

turf:

--- Quote from: dreama1 on July 08, 2016, 10:06:34 am ---"It's fleeting. I've put too much work into this and spent too much time. "
You mean you're to far deep in it to back out now? And if you hadn't, it's possibly you wouldn't be doing this, or?

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When I look at my collection, I don't just see games. I see lots of memories, laughs, and good times that I had hunting all this stuff down. There were lots of thrills of finding rare stuff in the wild.

I couldn't get rid of all this stuff. It's a big part of my life. I've enjoyed the adventure more than I have/will the destination.

darkragnorok:
Recently I have have been on the verge of selling off a couple of games from my collection. Not because in need of money or anything but rather to get rid of some clutter that derived from buying so many games on impulse and having them just sit there collecting dust. These are games that I look at and willingly know that I will never get to them and quite frankly I dont care at this point. This doesnt really apply to games I have owned for while and not parting ways with but just some random pick ups that I felt when I bought I did so blindly and just out of reflex. And who knows maybe one day I will somehow get my hands on said games and have the time to play and care but as of now, I dont really care.

burningdoom:
Sometimes, but I have enough other hobbies to keep me busy until I get the itch to play again.

necrosexual:

--- Quote from: dreama1 on July 08, 2016, 10:08:47 am ---
--- Quote from: ignition365 on July 08, 2016, 08:59:50 am ---I'm gonna answer that second question first, because I can collect my thoughts on that one. I've known people who have sold their collection, and they had mighty collections. Then a year or two later they start collecting again. Only one person have I seen not revert back to collecting, but I think collecting ruined a relationship for him, so maybe he knows better or something. On several occasions I have thought about selling my collection and doing something more "productive", but the only "productive" thing I can think to do is to go back into game design, which wouldn't be bad. I've got the skills, knowledge, and tools to make games, and I'm an approved Wii U developer by Nintendo. I've just never done anything with that knowledge short of proof of concepts and prototypes. I usually get something working and playable, have some folks test it, say it's great, and then I stop working on it.

I don't think I'll ever sell my collection, but I could see one day down the line, getting fed up and selling off more than half of my collection. I was pretty burnt out with collecting... back in... 2014? Maybe it was 2015. I did most of my "online" collecting through a fairly prominent Facebook group, it wasn't a very good group, admins were always power tripping and scamming folks. Eventually I got fed up and continuously called the admins on their shit until I started getting banned from other groups because the admins threatened to ban their groups members if they didn't ban me. I pretty much don't do any of that group BS any more. I pretty much stopped collecting for about 6 months because of it. The main leader of that group is relatively local to me. So I stopped going to places I knew I might run into him at, because I have temper problems and the guy is like 4' 8" and I'd be too tempted to throw his Bobby Lee looking midget ass. He later opened up a shop another city over, he massively scammed hundreds of folks over stuff like NWC carts and stuff. I wanna say this whole thing was mentioned on some prominent podcasts. People threatened to kill him and burn down his store, so he shut down his store for a while, renamed the business, and now he pretty much doesn't leave his store and he sends his cronies to flea markets and stuff to get more stuff to scam folks with. Guy was a real Crook, fam.

As for burnout... Sometimes. Usually burnout revolves around one thing or another for me. I was pretty burnt out after playing through the entire Assassin's Creed franchise recently, I think I took a day or two and stopped playing games altogether and then I did a kind of pallet cleanser and played some random games. Sometimes I just get tired of playing altogether and I'll spend a day or two just watching Netflix or something.

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Thank you for your honesty.

"ruined a relationship for him"
Hmm.. I mean I have some ideas, but how?

"I've known people who have sold their collection, and they had mighty collections. Then a year or two later they start collecting again."

I think it's quite a bizarre phenomenon. I can understand selling your collection when you're young and regretting it later, or just needing sell for the finances/family obligations in semi-adulthood. But to just sell off randomly like its purge then rebuy; then damn..., some even sell the collection again?

Idk I just find pretty weird/strange to me, and usually pretty hush hush when its mentioned as to why?, or not given much detail/depth. Some of them howeverwhen they sell off their collection, they just disappear basically or some have almost like a kind of "religious" (metaphorical terms) fanatical negative outlook on anything about, or related to video games, or those "who play" video games after they sell off. Sometimes as I said but usually just go cold turkey and disappear, still worth mentioning.

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ngl if i could 'purge' my collection for $100k and turn around and get the surgeries i need and another $40k to spend on recovery efforts (pay off a full year lease to landlords, repair my car for the return to the workforce (new engine, new clutch, some aesthetic repairs while i'm at it) and things like that) i would probably do it in a heartbeat.
but my surgeries are considered aesthetic surgeries, many insurances do not cover it. i would probably keep some of my CEs but the rest i could get back later.

so if i could purge it and start anew and feel destressed about the size of the library, and net a win on my end due to what are life-saving ~aesthetic~ surgeries for me, you know, i'd be all right with that. not even going to lie about that.

but i probably won't do the same thing i did when i was 17 where i literally hawked the whole lot off because i felt overwhelmed by the number, and knew (and still know) that going from 1xx at the time, 3xx now, games would greatly reduce an overwhelming backlog that clashes with my all-or-nothing complex just so i have to focus on a fewer number of games to play. nah, i know now i prefer the act of collecting at the end of the day. i rope it in via only 'good' games (subjective) for the most part, but i'd not sell it for anything other than paying surgeries.

sadly, i think the value of the whole lot that i do have is probably hovering around $8k? maybe $10k? it would cover the first surgery, but i have a hard time justifying it rn.

all or nothing and i wouldn't get 'all' for it, so i can't justify it for 'a portion'.

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